By Nadia Sifat

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Sun-kissed tower, bricks in the sky,

In unity we toiled, for none to deny

A voice intervened, a celestial reply,

Our speech diverged, men left awry

Hands that once crafted, in harmony they swayed,

Now tied in foreign sounds unexplained

Schemes of a tower, is all it would take

For voices to part, and language to break

Tongues in a jumble, lost in a stream

A defeat to the heavens, a loss of the dream

Hands in rhythm, constructing as one,

Voices that blended forever undone

The ruins of Babel remind us to mourn,

A lesson in history, a story forgone